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Examples of morsel in a Sentence

the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel

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The whale's front teeth were suited to nabbing slippery prey, much like those of its ancestors, but Gesiler and coauthors found that the molars of Coronodon formed slots that could have strained small morsels out of the water.

But this is nesting season and the little white birdhouse at the garden’s edge was also buzzing with activity as tiny house wrens shuttled delicious morsels such as earwigs, small worms and nondescript spiders to the hungry chicks inside.

Their bellies were swollen and their fragile limbs covered with sores that would not heal. Clothed in rags, these children of the Mississippi Delta huddled in crumbling shacks with empty iceboxes, not a morsel of food to be found.

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Origin and Etymology of morsel

Middle English, from Anglo-French, diminutive of mors bite, from Latin morsus, from mordēre to bite — more at mordant